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“Alliant Techsystems Inc., the Edina-based munitions maker that is the U.S. Army’s sole supplier of bullets, said Thursday it can’t keep up with demand from the Army, which is rising to its highest level since the Vietnam War.
Alliant made 1 billion rounds of small-caliber ammunition last year for the Army and will make 1.2 billion rounds this year. But the Army intends to set its annual requirement significantly higher, possibly as high as 2 billion rounds a year, and plans to look for a second supplier, Alliant Chief Executive Officer Daniel Murphy said.
Murphy said that the Army’s ammo demand could remain elevated for five years as the military continues Bush’s war.”
During the World War 2, the U.S. produced “1556 major warships, including 105 aircraft carriers and 111 submarines; 82,000 vessels and landing craft; nearly six thousand merchant ships; 300,000 aircraft; 634,000 jeeps; 88,000 tanks; 2.3 million trucks; 6.5 million rifles; 40 billion bullets.”
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